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  • TRUE SPIRIT
    TRUE SPIRIT
    JESSICA WATSON
    There is something different about adventurers; about the way their minds work. They look at the world as a place of challenges and though they know what fear is, they refuse to be hindered by it. 'Inspiring, personal and heartfelt' HEARALD SUN 'A simple yet addictive narrative . . . stirring stuff' COURIER-MAIL On 15 May 2010, after 210 days at sea and 24,285 nautical miles, ...
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  • WHO WILL TELL MY STORY
    WHO WILL TELL MY STORY
    -- ANONYMOUS
    It was a sleepless night full of tears and fear . we see his heart swing between despair and faith, fear and optimism, his mind imagining different futures and confronting the brutal truth of his present.Shining a light on the fate of all those living through war and occupation, Who Will Tell My Story?[Bokinfo]. ...
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  • THE LION AND THE UNICORN
    THE LION AND THE UNICORN
    RICHARD ALDOUS
    'Engaging and highly entertaining' Sunday Times The dramatic confrontation between the two 'mighty opposites' of the Victorian age, brilliantly recreated by a talented young historian. Gladstone and Disraeli were the fiercest political rivals of the modern age. Their intense hatred was ideological and deeply personal. Victorian Britain ruled the oceans and vast territories 'o...
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  • THE HOLOCAUST
    THE HOLOCAUST
    THOMAS CUSSANS
    The Holocaust is an attempt to explain the inexplicable - the systematic murder of millions of Europe's Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Second World War. It includes facsimile documents that have been carefully selected to remind readers that the horrifying statistics represent not numbers but people. This illustrated volume describes Jewish life before the...
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    25,00 €

  • THE LANTERN OF LOST MEMORIES
    THE LANTERN OF LOST MEMORIES
    SANAKA HIIRAGI
    Sanaka Hiiragi's The Lantern of Lost Memories is a healing, uplifting Japanese novel about family, love, loss and humanity, and what life is really about. One photograph, one treasured memory, one chance to go back . . . Imagine waking up in a cosy photo studio in the mountains, between this world and the next. A kind man hands you a hot drink and a stack of photographs, one ...
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  • 1,339 QI FACTS TO MAKE YOUR JAW DROP
    1,339 QI FACTS TO MAKE YOUR JAW DROP
    TV TIE-IN HUMOUR. Following the sensational success of 1,227 QI Facts to Blow Your Socks Off, the QI team returns with a fresh stack of facts to astonish and enlighten. Pigs suffer from anorexia. Wagner always wore pink silk underwear. Rugby School's first official rugby kit in 1871 included a bow tie. Lord Kitchener had four spaniels called Shot, Bang, Miss and Damn. It is imp...
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  • HIDDEN PATH
    HIDDEN PATH
    ELENA FORTÚN
    Set in early twentieth-century Spain, Hidden Path is a lyrical coming-of-age novel told from the perspective of a woman painter who struggles to find her way with art and with the women she loved. The novel is narrated in the first-person, following María Luisa as she reflects on her life from the turn of the twentieth century through the outset of the Second Spanish Republic (...
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  • RUSSIA
    RUSSIA
    ANTONY BEEVOR
    'A masterpiece of history' DAILY TELEGRAPH Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of the modern era. An incompatible White alliance of moderate socialists and reactionary monarchists stood little chance against Trotsky's Red Army and Lenin's ...
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  • BAD ACTORS
    BAD ACTORS
    MICK HERRON
    Mick Herron, "the le Carré of the future" (BBC), expands his world of bad spies with an even shadier cast of characters: the politicians, lobbyists, and misinformation agents pulling the levers of government policy. "Confirms Mick Herron as the best spy novelist now working."--NPR's Fresh Air Now an Apple TV+ series starring Gary Oldman and Kristin Scott Thomas. In London's MI5...
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  • GLORY
    GLORY
    NOVIOLET BULAWAYO
    'A brilliant, 400-page post-colonial fable . . . Bulawayo dares us, and the citizens of all Jidadas everywhere, to reimagine what our nations could someday become' Violet Kupersmith, New York Times Book Review Glory is an energy burst, an exhilarating joyride. It is the story of an uprising, told by a bold, vivid chorus of animal voices that helps us see our human world more c...
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  • MISINTERPRETATION
    MISINTERPRETATION
    LEDIA XHOGA
    There was a unicycle hanging from a metal rack, its lemon-coloured wheel hovering above my head. The last thing I remembered was that party in Manhattan, somewhere in the West Village, drinking odd-looking cocktails and eating walnut cookies . . . Everything seemed vague. In New York City, an Albanian interpreter cannot help but become entangled in her clients' struggles, de...
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  • TALES OF GLASS TOWN, ANGRIA, AND GONDAL
    TALES OF GLASS TOWN, ANGRIA, AND GONDAL
    CHRISTINE ALEXANDER
    'We pretended we had each a large island inhabited by people 6 miles high.' In their collaborative early writings the Brontës created and peopled the most extraordinary fantasy worlds, whose geography and history they elaborated in numerous stories, poems, and plays. Together they invented characters based on heroes and writers such as Wellington, Napoleon, Scott, and Byron, wh...
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  • A WHALER AT TWILIGHT
    A WHALER AT TWILIGHT
    ALEXANDER R. BRASH / ROBERT W. ARMSTRONG
    Nestled at the bottom of an old leather trunk for well over a century lay a forgotten manuscript--a long-lost story the author's great-great-grandson has now brought to life. At the heart of A Whaler at Twilight is the true account of an American whaler who embarked on a harrowing adventure in the South Pacific during the mid-nineteenth century in search of absolution and redem...
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  • THE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET
    THE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET
    CATRIONA WARD
    Immersive, gripping, and delivering twist after twist. It's so good you'll read it twice... ...
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    12,50 €

  • A WOMAN'S STORY
    A WOMAN'S STORY
    ANNIE ERNAUX
    WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREA New York Times Notable Book"A deeply affecting account of mothers and daughters, youth and age, and dreams and reality" (Kirkus Reviews)Upon her mother's death from Alzheimer's, Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time, as she seeks to "capture the real woman, the one who existed independently from me, born on the outs...
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  • JUJUTSU KAISEN, VOL. 2
    JUJUTSU KAISEN, VOL. 2
    GEGE AKUTAMI
    To gain the power he needs to save his friend from a cursed spirit, Yuji Itadori swallows a piece of a demon, only to find himself caught in the midst of a horrific war of the supernatural!In a world where cursed spirits feed on unsuspecting humans, fragments of the legendary and feared demon Ryomen Sukuna were lost and scattered about. Should any demon consume Sukuna's body pa...
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  • THE 39-STOREY TREEHOUSE
    THE 39-STOREY TREEHOUSE
    ANDY GRIFFITHS
    The 39-Storey Treehouse is the third book in Andy Griffith's and Terry Denton's wacky treehouse adventures, where the laugh-out-loud story is told through a combination of text and fantastic cartoon-style illustrations. 'The kind of book I would have loved as a kid' - Tom Fletcher, author of The Danger Gang Andy and Terry's amazing treehouse has thirteen new levels! It used t...
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  • THE GAZE
    THE GAZE
    ELIF SHAFAK
    From award-winning writer Elif Shafak, the Orange Prize long-listed author of The Forty Rules of Love and The Architect's Apprentice, The Gaze is a humorous and carnivalesque exploration of what it means to look and be looked at... An obese woman and her lover, a dwarf, are sick of being stared at wherever they go and so decide to reverse roles. The man goes out wearing make-up...
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  • FANTASTIC MR FOX
    FANTASTIC MR FOX
    ROALD DAHL
    "On a hill above the valley there was a wood. In the wood there was a huge tree. Under the tree there was a hole. In the hole lived Mr Fox and Mrs Fox and their four Small Foxes. . . " Mr Fox is a very clever fox - every evening he creeps down into the valley and helps himself to food from the nearby farms. Chickens from Farmer Boggis, ducks and geese from Farmer Bunce, and t...
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  • BRITNEY
    BRITNEY
    DANNY WHITE
    She has sold more than 150 million albums, wowed sell-out audiences around the globe, and starred in iconic music videos, but Britney Spears' success has come with an unbearable price tag. This biography uncovers the story of how this church-going girl from the Deep South became an objectified teenage sensation and the princess of pop. It follows her rollercoaster existence ...
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  • CRUISING
    CRUISING
    ALEX ESPINOZA
    "Espinoza's book stands out as a beacon for future queer writers, thinkers, and activists. Reading these accounts, I felt myself drawn into a past both wonderful and strange, a world I hope we will continue to celebrate and preserve." --Garrard Conley Acclaimed author Alex Espinoza takes readers on an uncensored journey through the underground, to reveal the timeless art of cr...
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  • THE STORIED LIFE OF A. J. FIKRY
    THE STORIED LIFE OF A. J. FIKRY
    GABRIELLE ZEVIN
    A.J. Fikry, the grumpy owner of Island Books, is going through a hard time: his bookshop is failing, he has lost his beloved wife, and his prized possession-a rare first edition book has been stolen. Over time, he has given up on people, and even the books in his store, instead of offering solace, are yet another reminder of a world that is changing too rapidly. But one day A.J...
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  • THE MAN WHO DIED TWICE
    THE MAN WHO DIED TWICE
    RICHARD OSMAN
    It's the following Thursday. Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with whom she has a long history. He's made a big mistake, and he needs her help. His story involves stolen diamonds, a violent mobster, and a very real threat to his life. As bodies start piling up, Elizabeth enlists Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron in the hunt for a ruthless murderer. And if they ...
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  • MOON TIGER (RE-ISSUE)
    MOON TIGER (RE-ISSUE)
    PENELOPE LIVELY
    Penelope Lively's Booker Prize winning classic, Moon Tiger is a haunting story of loss and desire, published here as a Penguin Essential for the first time.Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying.But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will write a 'history of the world . . . and in the process, my own'. And it is her story from a childh...
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  • THIS STRANGE EVENTFUL HISTORY
    THIS STRANGE EVENTFUL HISTORY
    CLAIRE MESSUD
    June 1940. As Paris falls to the Germans, Gaston Cassar - honorable servant of France, devoted husband and father, currently posted as naval attache in Salonica - bids farewell to his beloved wife, aunt and children, placing his faith in God that they will be reunited after the war. But escaping the violence of that cataclysm is not the same as emerging unscathed. The family wi...
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  • NINE MONTH CONTRACT
    NINE MONTH CONTRACT
    AMY DAWS
    "A hilariously fresh and spicy rom-com that I couldn't put down!" -Meghan Quinn, USA Today Bestselling Author Help Wanted: Grumpy mountain man seeks baby momma. Job is an incubator position only. Surrogate must be impervious to grunting as the form of communication and nosy brotherly neighbors. Rustic mountain range housing available upon request. I wanted to pummel my ir...
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    12,50 €

  • BEWARE OF PITY
    BEWARE OF PITY
    STEFAN ZWEIG
    'The most exciting book I have ever read ... a feverish, fascinating novel' Antony Beevor, Sunday Telegraph 'I can't take any more of your revolting merciful kindness!' Who would have thought that the great military hero Captain Hofmiller - that living monument to his own courage - would have anything burdening his soul? But when he reveals his story, it is not one of bravery b...
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  • LATER POEMS: SELECTED AND NEW
    LATER POEMS: SELECTED AND NEW
    ADRIENNE RICH
    The final volume of poems by America's most powerful and distinctive poetic voice.Later Poems: Selected and New brings together a remarkable body of work by the celebrated poet. Included are Adrienne Rich's own selections from twelve volumes of published works, including the National Book Award-winning Diving into the Wreck, An Atlas of the Difficult World, and her final volume...
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    19,99 €

  • ATOMIC HABITS
    ATOMIC HABITS
    JAMES CLEAR
    THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD Transform your life with tiny changes in behaviour, starting now. People think that when you want to change your life, you need to think big. But world-renowned habits expert James Clear has discovered another way. He knows that real change comes from the compound effect of hundreds of small decisions: doing two p...
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    22,50 €

  • THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES
    THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES
    PETER WOHLLEBEN
    Sunday Times Bestseller 'A paradigm-smashing chronicle of joyous entanglement' Charles Foster Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month (September) Are trees social beings? How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings? In The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben makes the case that the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scient...
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